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Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use - Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs') documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society.
Including international contributions from a range of disciplines, the volume discusses the challenges that surround TRCs' documentation. Considering the impact of the politicization of documentation, chapters also highlight the lack of political will to democratize information, the lack of dissemination and the preservation infrastructures that hinder access and its effective use and re-use. Arguing that TRCs' documentation should be used to inform policy, improve governance and to promote justice, healing and reconciliation, the volume considers the ethical challenges involved in disseminating such information. Contributing authors argue that information professionals should play a major role in the planning for the TRCs' information management infrastructures, if they are to facilitate access, effectively manage the generated documentation, deal with preservation of the compound records and promote the dissemination of the TRC findings.
Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions demonstrates that TRCs' documentation provides validation of human rights violations and that it helps to promote an understanding of the causes of conflict. As such, it will be essential reading for academics and students working in Archival Studies, Information Science, History, Transitional Justice, and Peace and Conflict Studies
Contents
Introduction; Section 1: Access to Information and Transitional Justice; Chapter 1: Archives and Transitional Justice: Lessons from Colombia's Truth Commission; Chapter 2: Truth Commissions, Vitriol Memory and Governance Failure in Nigeria; Chapter 3: Democracy and Access to Information on Human Rights Violations in Nigeria (1999 - 2002); Chapter 4: The Ivorian 2011-2013 Truth Commission as a Practice of Securitising Truth; Section 2: Navigating Archives and Issues of Access and Ownership; Chapter 5: The Exiled Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Documentation; Chapter 6: Full Access for Full Truth - The Canadian TRC and its Records; Chapter 7: Truth Commissions' documentation in Brazil: challenges and legacy; Chapter 8: Decolonizing Copyright: Appropriation, Intellectual Property, and Cultural Heritage: Copyright; Section 3: Memorialization and Commemoration; Chapter 9: States of Apology: The Politics of Memory, Access, and Irish Archives Legislation Barry Houlihan and Eliscia Kinder; Chapter 10: The Crisis of Memory: The Ethics of Managing Traumatic Adverse Events in Truth Commissions Research; Chapter 11: From television news broadcast to online archive: Truth Commission Special Report's documentation of perpetratorship and political transition in South Africa; Chapter 12: Democratizing Digital Discourses: Considerations for the Use of Truth Commission Testimony in Virtual Museums
